Guest Week 5 – Dying’s Easy

We’ve known Lauren for a while, and Glenn more recently. Turns out they have a New Comic with a cast of characters I wholeheartedly approve.

Sooooooooo. FTF will resume normal updating Monday. Rejoice!

So far, I ran into a snag with the comic book. Long story short: If I did a full color collection of FTF Year 1, all 260 strips, then with formatting and such, it would come to 282 pages, and I’d have to price it at $35 or more. That’s a HUGE book for a webcomic, for one thing, and secondly… I didn’t like that price point. Call me a bad Capitalist if you will, but I prefer that our book collections stay low enough to sell to average working class joes. This means I try to keep them under a $20 price point. Would some people buy a 282 page book for $40? Sure! But I’d rather put out 2 6-month collections at 140 pages and price them about $19.

We’ll see. As I type this, the proof for Book 1, 6-month version, is winging its way to me.

So are you putting out both 140 page books together for $19, or are the two costing $19 each?

If they cost $19 each, I’d rather pay $40 for both in one big volume, in full color. For us working class joes, $40 is usually our luxury purchase of the paycheck, and I’d gladly make it mine, even as a working class college student.

Honestly, if you can afford to have 3 different versions on-hand, I’d say make both available – the 2 six-month editions, and the 1 full-year edition. Some of us will be budget-constrained and by them six months at a time, and some of us will be glomping the full year.

I actually saw a .50 Browning cartridge loaded with a soft point bullet, once. It was by itself, on a shelf in the workshop of the guy I get most of my holsters from. Was too busy getting a custom holster made to ask for details.

Price it however you like but my preferences run, in order: Full year. Autographed. Hard Cover or, at a minimum, Trade Paperback. Price is less of an issue than you may presume. Just crank out a few bonus strips or a back-story and you’re a God.

Of course, I’m prolly the only one of your income-impaired readers who’s willing to cough up the extra bucks for a “special” edition that doesn’t need to ride on the shirt bus.